This university founded in 1991 (by Decree[12]), is located in a “ville nouvelle” which is dynamic and constantly evolving.

There are more than 160 curricula from two-year undergraduate degrees to the doctoral level, over half of which are professionally oriented.

[14] Thanks to 19 laboratories[15][16] and 9 doctoral schools,[17] the university is also a significant research centre developing major projects, in particular, those concerning Biology in conjunction with the French National Sequencing Center (Genoscope).

Nationally assessed laboratories and research teams support Doctoral Schools which are based on one or several fields of study.

Member of exchanges programmes : Erasmus (EU), MICEFA (USA) and CREPUQ (Quebec).